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notebook ideas records
When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one. Bill Bryson
notebook motivation powerful
Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future. Carl Sagan
notebook pages way
Looking at and shaping your own work is a very intuitive process. You see something you've written in your notebook. It's there on the page and either feels right or it doesn't, and it's hard sometimes to go beyond that and discover why it feels that way. Chad Harbach
notebook running block
Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
notebook running writing
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks. Then I got pretentious and started writing with a dip pen on parchment (I wrote at least a novel-length poem that way). Moved on to a fountain pen. Then a typewriter, then an electric self-correct. Then someone gave me a word processor and I was amazed at being able to fit ten pages on one of those floppy discs. Charles de Lint
notebook growing-up artist
Growing up, I'd already decided I wanted to be a beatnik. A Bohemian poet, I thought. Or a musician. Maybe an artist. I'd dress in black turtlenecks and smoke Gitanes. I'd listen to cool jazz in clubs, getting up to read devastating truths from my notebook, leaning against the microphone, cigarette dangling from my hand.
notebook real character
As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed.
notebook prayer heart
When I am praying the most eloquently, I am getting the least accomplished in my prayer life. But when I stop getting eloquent and give God less theology and shut up and just gaze upward and wait for God to speak to my heart He speaks with such power that I have to grab a pencil and a notebook and take notes on what God is saying to my heart. Aiden Wilson Tozer
notebook writing gay
A writer will write with or without a movement; but at the same time, for Chicano, lesbian, gay and feminist writers-anybody writing against the grain of Anglo misogynist culture-political movements are what have allowed our writing to surface from the secret places in our notebooks into the public sphere. Cherrie Moraga
eye pet tears
You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears. C. S. Lewis
eye ears mouths
Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears.
eye enough my-own
My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others.
eye people facts
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
eye men oxford
Wherever you turn your eye—except in science—an Oxford man is at the top of the tree. Cecil Rhodes
eye sight people
Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes.Sometimes, people can discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes, we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying enough attention. Cecelia Ahern
eye dark staring
Close your eyes and stare into the dark.
eye ideas worry
Don't ever take for granted when people look in your eyes; you have no idea how important it is to be acknowledged. Even if it's an angry stare, because it's when they ignore you, when they look right through you, that you should start worrying.
eye color shadow
I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes. Carrie Underwood
trying
We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose. Wendell Berry
trying
When you think about the word 'quintessentially', it's about trying to get to the very essence of something.
trying
It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want! Becky G
trying
Oh I am trying to remember, we would read the script after we did the show. David Selby
trying
I'm trying to have everything that I put into the world be something that makes a difference in the way I want to make a difference. David Friedman
trying
I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
trying
I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am. Nick Carter
trying difficult
I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
trying dinner carbs
I try to stay away from carb-y things at dinner.